Firebird

One of the wonderful things about 8-bit games is the fact that people were making up game mechanics on the go, and had to somehow shoehorn a plot into whatever crazy idea they thought might make a good game. This game is a bit of a case in point.

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I'm sure lots of you out there remember the excellent DOS game Sleuth, which was written by Eric N. Miller in the 1980s. I absolutely loved it, and still play it at Christmas with the family. Unfortunately, it requires an emulator to run nowadays, which can be a bit fiddly.